> ...> > > Maybe this is silly and there exist services that do exactly this, in> > userspace, in a safe way, and as fast as a kernel trap. Sorry if so, but i> > think many people dont see the way out [the GGI people for example].> > You can just use another selector/segment instead of the default datasegment> just as WINE does? Ok, will only work on i386 and friends. ...> (See modify_ldt system call.)

Which is no good. Linux should be as cross-platform as possible, right? Then we need a uniform graphics API.

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